Ed Littlefield
18:45 - 19:07
"the process for this was Kuné gave— Vera gave Kuné language. Kuné translated it and then double translated it, got it back to Vera."
“the process for this was Kuné gave— Vera gave Kuné language. Kuné translated it and then double translated it, got it back to Vera.”
- Speaker
- Ed Littlefield
- Timestamp
- 18:45 – 19:07
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 28, 2026
From the transcript
And I could go on for hours and hours on this. But if I just also want to shout out Rory Stitt, who could not be here. The—. Yeah, the process for this was Kuné gave— Vera gave Kuné language. Kuné translated it and then double translated it, got it back to Vera.
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